🌱 Mountain Brook Volleyball Games + Fall Events Around Alabama

Hello, everybody. I'm back in your inbox this morning to walk you through the most important things happening these days in Mountain Brook. Here's what's going on today:

• 🍁 These 66 fall events across Alabama (and the Birmingham area) are the perfect way to start off the season.
• 🏐 The Mountain Brook girls varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams will play Woodlawn this afternoon.
• 🧸 Snoozy's Toy Store is about to hold a sale.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and very warm. High: 93 Low: 69.

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Here are the top three stories in Mountain Brook today

1. Marty Irby, an Alabama native and the current executive director with Animal Wellness Action in Washington D.C., shares with CBS 42 the longtime inspiration he took from Queen Elizabeth II's advocacy for the wellbeing of horses. The Queen's funeral took place on Monday. (CBS 42)
2. It's just one day before the official start of fall (on September 22), and there's no shortage of fun events to take part in across Alabama – including in the Over The Mountain and Birmingham regions. In Hoover, the Bluff Park Art Show will bring together more than 100 artists on October 1, and it's almost time for Alabama ComicCon, which takes place in Birmingham starting on September 23. Here's the full list of 66 events. (AL.com)
3. You may have noticed that the Mountain Brook Police Department's nonemergency phone number was offline briefly Monday morning. The department said it was due to maintenance to help fix outages the service has recently been experiencing. (Mountain Brook Police Department via Facebook)

Today in Mountain Brook:

• Circle of Life Knitters - Levite Jewish Community Center (10 a.m.)
• O'Neal Library Board - City of Mountain Brook (4:30 p.m.)
• Girls JV Volleyball vs Woodlawn -Spartan Arena (5:30 p.m.)
• Girls Varsity Volleyball vs Woodlawn -Spartan Arena (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• These cats and dogs are up for adoption in the Mountain Brook area. (Mountain Brook Patch)
• It's almost time for Oktoberfest at the Birmingham Zoo, coming up on October 1, on Saturday. (Twitter)
• Snoozy's Toy Store in Mountain Brook is holding a sale starting on October 3, and you can put items on hold through October 1. (Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce via Facebook)

That's it for today. See you all tomorrow for another update!

— Dashiell Allen

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